NIGERIAN SCAM LETTER FROM

RICHARD OBULE

From: RICHARD OBULE <richard_obule@zwallet.com>

Date: Saturday, September 07, 2002 6:50 AM

To: anniemcguire@fraudaid.com <anniemcguire@fraudaid.com>

Subject: ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir,

It is my humble pleasure to write this letter irrespective of the fact that
you do not know me. However, I came to know of you in my private search for
a reliable and trustworthy person that can handle a confidential
transaction of this nature in respect to our investment plans in real
estate. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any
one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day.

Let me start by first, introducing myself properly to you. I am Richard O
bule, a Branch Manager at one of the Zenith Commercial Bank Nigeria Plc, Lagos.

A foreigner, Late Nicholas Owen, a Civil Engineer/Contractor with the
federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly
air crash, banked with us here at the Zenith Commercial Bank PLC, Lagos. He
had a closing balance of USD$25.5M (Twenty five Million! , Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects
to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin. Or,
alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and
ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts made by the Zenith Bank to get in touch with any
of late Nicholas Owen's next of kin (he had no known wife and children) has
been unsuccessful. The management under the influence of our chairman and
board of directors, are making arrangement for the fund to be declared
"UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms
and Ammunition which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and
the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development. Myself and some of my trusted
colleagues in the bank, now seek for your permission to have you stand as
late Nicholas Owen's next of kin. So tha! t the fund (USD$25.5M), would be
subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary
next of kin through our overseas corresponding bank. All documents and
proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we
are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of
the total amount. While the rest would be for me and my colleagues for
purchase of properties in your country through you/your Company.

If this proposal is OK by you, then kindly get to me immediately via my
e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail,
so I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

Best Regards.

MR, RICHARD OBULE
Branch Manager,
Zenith Comm. Bank Plc

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